Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Dakota had terrible blizzard on Feb
ruary 25.
Dayton. o, gets s57.67s. O5 under the
Dow law tax.
Thos A Edison, the inventor, is in
Florids,and is much improved in health.
The President has vetoed the bill for
government building at Portsmouth,
Ohio.
The President has declared that there
is no need of special session of the
/ senate.
The new Henning well at North Ball.
timore, D., is producing 5000 barrels of
oil daily.
i Snow at st. Johnsbury, Vt, blocked
the railroads last week, and in places
was five feet deep.
James Freeman Clarke, who has been
quite III, is not now thought TO be in a
dangerous condition.
Mr. and Mrs Armstrong, of Coal City,
Owen county, Ind, are the parents of q
child born without eyes.
1t is announced that Frank Siddalls,
of Philadelphia, has increased his offer
for Maud to S125,OOO.
Newton Watt, Morris, ILL, is on trial
for the murder and robbery on the Rock
Island railroad last March.
Senator Sherman entertained the
Ohio people in Washington, at his home
on X street. Saturday evening.
Gov Lee. of Virginia, has issued his
proclamation calling an extra session of
the legislature on the 10Th of March.
An earthquake, with more noise than
quake, disturbed South Carolina and
Georgia at o'clock Saturday morning.
Texas will vote on prohibition
amendment on the 6rst Thursday of
August, so the state senate has decided.
Judge Brown, of the U S circuit court
New York holds that the boycott of the
Old Dominion Line is actlonable for
damages.
Miss Maggie Beading, ,BanksAille, Pa,
is said to have been cured of paralysis
by faith. But she has suddenly become
speechless.
Mrs Logan has selected the center of
the circle of the north end of South
Park, Chicago, for the burial of the late,
General Logan.
1t is announced that vein Of iron
ore, sixteen ieet thick and yielding 621k
per cent of metal, has been struck at
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Ex-President White, of Cornell Uni
yersity declined to allow his name to be
considered III connection with the inter.
state commission.
Mrs Cart aud her two children, resid
| ing at Holbrook, Ariz., while driving in
the country were oVertaken by bliz'
zard and frozen to death.
The question has arisen whether or
not the President has the right to ap-
point the Inter-sta g commission after
the adjournment of the senate.
Diphthuria is nearly epidemic through
out Dutchess county, n Y. The origin
of the disease puzzles the physicians.
Scores of deaths have occurred.
L. is stated in Ottawa, Ont, that al
retaliation bill will be introduced i'm.
posing u Is per cent duty on all articles
Imported from the United States.
Hon Jessie w Fell the first lawyer
who practiced at Bloomington. ILL.,, and
the man who, it is said, frst proposed
Lincoln for the Presidency is dead.
William Irving, DID, of the I'd Presby-
terian church. of Troy. n Y, has ac,
cepted the call TO the secretaryship of |
The Presbyterian board of home missions. |
The Ohio club, Cincinnati, gave a
farewell reception Saturday night to
Judge George Hoadly and Edgar john
son, who are to become residents of
New York.
The dicision of the supreme court of |
Ohio as to the right of the city of Gin,
cinnati to receive a certain portion of
the Dow tax, will give the police fund
over $4,000.
Green Smith, of the Indiana senate, is
Not satisfied with the decision of the
supreme court in favor of Lieutenant
Governor Robertson, and is preparing
f,r further legel steps.
Some twenty Hungarians who went
south from Ohio to get work. failed and
are now in destitute condition trying
to get home. Twenty more were left
behind at Chattanooga.
A Chicago court has refused to inter-
fere with muSium managers exhibit
ting a wax model of Nina Van Zandt,
who made herself Infamous by trying to
marry the Anarchist Spies.
Rumor has it that Gov Fitzhugh Lee,
OF Virginia, is figuring for the Vice
Presidential nomination by the Demo-
Gratis. and was up in Minnesota for the
purpose or mending his fences there.
The Freedmen's Aid Society of the
Methodist church has asked for the res
ignatiou of Prof Wilford Caulkins, of
Chattanooga University, and has declar-
ed its objection to any person being
refused admission to the University
classes because of color.
Moo ly and Sankey, the Evane eelists,
are to have built for them in Chicago by
wealthy residents, building costing
S250,000 in which they will wrestle With
the wickedness infesting that city
There will also be carried on there a
school for training Christian workers"
A man giving his name as Henry
Adams has been swindling Ohio far+
mers. lie offered them the agency of a
tool-sharpener if tLey would sign an
order for a sample, which hundreds of
them did. The orders turn out now to
be promissory notes, and the farmers
don't know what to do about it, n
1t looks as if an extra session of con>
gress will be necessary.
Burglars blew open the safe In the
bank at Lagrange, Mo. land took S2l 900.